Ella Moulding (#253) who finished first counter for Lancashire at English Schools
Witton Park, Blackburn - Saturday 14th March 2015

Ella Moulding, U15G, finished off a very successful cross country season when she lined up with 345 other athletes to represent Lancashire in the English Schools Cross Country Championships held at Witton Park, Blackburn on Saturday 14th.  The previous week’s rain provided a good testing course with soft ground and mud being prevalent throughout.  Ella competed in the junior girls 3.2km race and having got off to a good start she soon established herself in the top 40 runners and then gradually improved her placing to cross the line 27th in 12:05 and first counter for the Lancashire team which finished 17th.

 

The Club's other active Under 15 Girl and last year's Junior Club Champion, Chloe Norman, also represented Lancashire taking part in Inter-Counties track and field at Sports City Manchester where she competed in the four-lap track run coming 4th in her heat and performed creditably in the junior disciplines of the standing long jump, the speed bounce and the eight-lap paarlauf.

 

Andy Draper, first of LSARRC runners
at the Sweatshop 10M - 15th March 2015

Several members of Lytham St. Annes RRC competed in Sunday's Sweatshop 10 Miles, moved after a decade on the flat St. Annes sea front to the equally exposed Bispham coast, and doubling as the Lancashire AA 10 Mile Championships and the Northern Vets Championships.  Preston Harrier's quality runner David Rigby won the race and the Lancashire title with 52:50, ahead of 274 finishers while Bev Wright of BWFAC, fourth women, took the ladies' Lancashire title.

 



Fiona Geldard who was 2nd WV50
and counted in Northern Vets
 

First of the Lytham contingent was Andy Draper who made a good return to racing after a long lay-off with 23rd place and 1:01:48.  Mark Willett was next in, 51st in 1:06:28.  Graham Webster finished in 53rd, second in his V60 category, in 1:06:40 and counted in Northern Vets.  Fiona Geldard was the first Lytham woman in and also took second in her V50 category, 139th in 1:20:00.  She completed the course in a much improved PB, 51 seconds better than previously, to finish first women in the Northern Vets Championship.   Pam Hardman, V55, was 190th in 1:27:39.

 



LSARRC Members who took part in the Club Weekend grouping for the pre-breakfast
run outside Arnside Hostel - Saturday 14th March 2015

Fifteen members of the Club took part in the latest of the biannual Training Weekends, a club tradition that started in 2003 and has since taken in over twenty holidays visiting a total of ten youth hostels in various Lake District and Yorkshire Dales locations.  This year's took place in benign weather amidst the glorious scenery of the Arnside area.  Pre-breakfast runs along the embankment overlooking Morecambe Bay, an off-road circuit of the adjacent Arnside Knott climbing 700 feet in a double loop and an eleven-mile Sunday road run were part of the training this time interspersed by plenty of social activities.

Progress along Arnside sea front in
early morning light - Saturday 14th March 2015

Breakfast time after the 4 mile run
Saturday 14th March 2015